Hossam el-Hamalawy's Library tagged Police → View Popular

Our masters prefer us not to tangle with the bad guys as well as good guys. Years ago, a Time magazine reporter in Cairo packed his note-book with facts about the routine Egyptian police torture of prisoners. But the US ambassador in Cairo persuaded the bureau chief to hold off because he understood that Mubarak was going to "crack down" on such abuses. Ho ho! Time didn't run the story and, of course, the abuses got worse. Shortly afterwards, jail guards were forcing Egyptian prisoners to rape each other.
And nothing has changed. The big Western news agencies which have headquartered their Middle East offices in Cairo are as loath to touch these stories today as they were more than a decade ago. It's just the same in that other friendly Muslim ally of ours, Turkey. But let's start in Cairo. When the "peace process" – remember that tacky phrase? – was about to reach fruition almost 15 years ago, the big wire agencies poured millions into new offices and staffs in Mubarak's gleaming capital of democracy. And what happened? As usual, the Egyptian Mukhabarat security agencies inserted their own lads into the bureaux – or blackmailed Egyptian reporting staff – to spy on the journalistic output. All bureau chiefs in Cairo know who their local spies are. But, of course, they can't dismiss them.
2 more annotations...
- Nor can they report the news that their "news" agency is supposed to be telling us about. The mere hint of an anti-Mubarak story – I am omitting from this the courageous coverage of the shameful behaviour of the cops in mauling and beating female as well as male protesters during the anti-Mubarak "Enough movement's demonstrations – and the Ministry of Information will be calling in the relevant bureau chief for a chat. Even a formal Egyptian denial won't do you much good. There will be serious consequences if there is a repeat. Closing down the bureau, perhaps, having wasted all those millions on installing the office in the first place?
- Which is why almost all Cairo-datelined coverage of police savagery in Egypt contains only reports on London-issued protests from Amnesty or Human Rights Watch, followed by the necessary Egyptian condemnation of the human rights groups. In other words, the investment in such Western news bureaux has now become more important than the news for which the original investment was made.

ح. م. ن ملازم شرطة بقسم السويس
فيما تجمع أكثر من 150 محاميا ومواطنا أمام قسم السويس فى وقفه اجتجاجيه اعتراضا على ما وصفوه ببلطجة رجال الشرطة مهددين بتصعيد الموقف إلى وزير الداخلية.

قرار إزالة سور زريبة يودي بحياة مواطن على يد الشرطة في دمنهور | النديم

الرائد محمد رشدي ده حيوان حيوان

alnadeem.org/155 - Preview

Egypt Police Pigs Murder

الرائد محمد رشدي رئيس تنفيذ الإزالات بمركز شرطة دمنهور
وقد أكد شهود الواقعة في تحقيقات النيابة والتي بدأت مساء الخميس واستمرت حتى صباح الجمعة أن الرائد محمد رشدي قام بالاعتداء بالضرب على المجني عليه لمنعه من التواجد أمام السور المقرر إزالته ولم يتحمل المجني عليه الضرب فسقط مغشيا عليه أمام السور فما كان من الضابط إلا أن أصدر أوامره لسائق اللودر بإزالة السور بقوله ( هده على اللي فيه ) واستجاب السائق لأوامر الضابط وقام بوضع جاروف اللودر أسفل السور الذي يعلو الأرض بمسافة ثلاثة أمتار في الوقت الذي كان فيه المجني عليه ما زال مغشيا عليه أمام السور فوقع السور عليه وغرق في دمائه من جراء ذلك .
1 more annotations...
- وقد حاول السائق الهرب بالجرى فى الأراضى الزراعية بالقرية إلا أن أهالي القرية قاموا بالقبض عليه وتمكن الضابط من الهرب بعد إطلاق أعيرة نارية فى الهواء تهديدا لأهل القرية .